“Don't forget to vote some suggestions correct or wrong, together we can make the best Norwegian dictionary there is!

About Us

Who we are

DinOrdbok is a language project by Jon Atle Sandbakken. The idea has been in Jon Atle's mind for quite some time now. During his studies he lived abroad and noticed Norwegians need to translate. He noticed that just knowing the exact translation often isn't enough, you really need to "live" the language to find the right word. Jon Atle collected dictionaries of different languages for a loong time, and putting these together has been a natural step. The start of a portal where language lovers can meet and exchange their ideas and learn languages from each other had begun. What's better than a native speaker who want to share his knowledge? Thanks to his desire to learn new languages, and knowledge of website construction, this website alive today!

More into it

DinOrdbok is designed so that everyone can help to develop it. Under each translation you will be asked whether they know the translation of a word missing in the dictionary, and you will be given the ability to make a suggestion for the translation. In addition, you get asked whether they think a translation of a word from one language to another seems correct, and the opportunity to vote this translation correct or wrong. When a translation gets enough positive votes it will most likely be added to the dictionary. This way everyone can contribute to make the best dictionary for translation to and from Norwegian.

The dictionaries

It is currently possible to translate between 24 languages on this website. Since everyone can contribute translations are continuously added to the dictionaries each day. As a free service, this is one of the best dictionaries with translation to and from Norwegian Bokmal and New Norwegian online. Below is an overview and comparison to other dictionaries and payment services. Remember; DinOrdbok is free and can not really be compared to a dictionary you pay for, but we do it anyway so you can see how good it is!

The Comparison

In the table below you can see an overview of the Norwegian dictionaries and how many words they have. All the dictionaries have 71238 keywords, but not every keyword has a translation to the given language. The overview tells us how many translations the dictionary have and how many percent complete the given dictionary is. This is where you come in, we need your help to complete them! You will also see a comparison with other online dictionaries, not all of them are free as DinOrdbok, but we compare with them anyway to get a realistic view of how good our dictionaries are.

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From

To

Keywordstotal

Keywordstranslated

Tritrans*

Clue**

Ordnett***

1.

Norwegian

Bulgarian

71238

11972 (17 %)

0

0

0

2.

Norwegian

Catalan

71238

11109 (16 %)

0

0

0

3.

Norwegian

Chinese

71238

12692 (18 %)

0

0

0

4.

Norwegian

Danish

71238

15797 (22 %)

0

0

0

5.

Norwegian

Greek

71238

11789 (17 %)

0

0

0

6.

Norwegian

English

71238

68750 (97 %)

23391

150000

65000

7.

Norwegian

Spanish

71238

48710 (68 %)

23391

150000

30000

8.

Norwegian

Finnish

71238

18502 (26 %)

0

0

0

9.

Norwegian

French

71238

18894 (27 %)

0

150000

40000

10.

Norwegian

German

71238

14219 (20 %)

0

150000

42000

11.

Norwegian

Icelandic

71238

7672 (11 %)

0

0

0

12.

Norwegian

Italian

71238

18586 (26 %)

0

0

?

13.

Norwegian

Japanese

71238

14551 (20 %)

0

0

0

14.

Norwegian

Latin

71238

6865 (10 %)

0

0

0

15.

Norwegian

Dutch

71238

18803 (26 %)

0

0

0

16.

Norwegian

Norwegian (New Norwegian)

71238

18061 (25 %)

0

0

2000

17.

Norwegian

Sami

71238

9532 (13 %)

0

0

0

18.

Norwegian

Polish

71238

20902 (29 %)

0

0

0

19.

Norwegian

Portuguese

71238

17208 (24 %)

0

0

0

20.

Norwegian

Romanian

71238

9616 (13 %)

0

0

0

21.

Norwegian

Russian

71238

17292 (24 %)

0

0

?

22.

Norwegian

Slovak

71238

13262 (19 %)

0

0

0

23.

Norwegian

Swedish

71238

48890 (69 %)

0

0

0

24.

Norwegian

Turkish

71238

12913 (18 %)

0

0

0

25.

Norwegian

Vietnamese

71238

4968 (7 %)

0

0

0

* According to their website - 31/08/2012
** According to DinSide: http://www.dinside.no/5275/clue-2000 - 09/20/1999 - Note: Not free!
*** According to OrdNett: http://www.ordnett.no/om - 31/08/2012 - Note: Not free!

Thanks to

DinOrdbok is put together by a number of different dictionaries, some of them under the Open license CC-BY-SA. We want to thank all who have contributed to make DinOrdbok more complete: